Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas.… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It's my natural habit. But you know, I… — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Sure;i am very picky in every regard,both at home and any my work.Everything has its place and shoud be put back.i can… — AXLL_SBLNS Copy Share Image
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
You soon get into a habit of eating less and that's the key to shed the extra weight. — Shehnaaz Gill Copy Share Image
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed,… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit,… — Bill W Copy Share Image
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image